Mispronouncing Student’s Name Now Considered a ‘Microaggression’

[snickerd3]

no names that could easily be shortened.  If I am going to call you something that is your name.  Minisnick = Jake, not just a shortcut for Jacob.  

 

[Supe]

Even worse than stripper names - hippie names that double as stripper names.

Met a girl in a bar in TX once whose actual name was Glitter Rainbow.

 

[MetsFan]

My wife had a student whose last name is Cockburn.  He was very quick to correct you if you pronounced it the "obvious" way since it is pronounced Coburn.  It's probably one of the reasons Olivia Wilde changed her last name.

 

[Supe]

Sorry, I just don't buy "the CK is silent."

 

[SNAPE/SMOTT PE]

I do call my kids by their shortened names, Victoria is Tori and Evelyn is Ava.

 

[Road Guy]

so for fun my kids soccer team named themselves the "Maggots" It took most of the parents a few weeks to get used to it, but now I hear them yell "Lets Go Maggots!!" from the sidelines.....

its mostly funny to me, but the kids are enjoying their name

 

[FLBuff PE]

And now we know how RG addressed his team the first time. "All right maggots...now listen here." You can take RG out of the military, but you can't take the military out of RG.

 

[Road Guy]

and my maggot's are 3-0

 

[akwooly]

i have shortened my kids names to just letters.

 

[Ble_PE]

And now we know how RG addressed his team the first time. "All right maggots...now listen here." You can take RG out of the military, but you can't take the military out of RG.

Yea, but did he pronounce it correctly?

 

[matt267 PE]

so for fun my kids soccer team named themselves the "Maggots" It took most of the parents a few weeks to get used to it, but now I hear them yell "Lets Go Maggots!!" from the sidelines.....
its mostly funny to me, but the kids are enjoying their name

Are the two g's silent?

 

[Road Guy]

Some of the kids like the French pronunciation "mag-ots"